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Liguus: The Flamboyant Tree Snails
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Best and most complete work ever done on these fascinating mollusks
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beautiful study of these beautiful and endangered mollusks in Cuba, US, & Hispanola
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A superb reference work
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Beautiful enough to serve as a coffee table book
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Comes with a CD with additional information not in the book
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Contains a clear acetate sheet which when overlayed on the plates provides a number which is keyed to the text
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Liguus: The Flamboyant Tree Snails
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A. Guillén, F. Krull & L. A. Ponce de León
ISBN 9780984714056, published in 2018 by Frederick Krull, Florida, USA, hardcover in laminated boards, about 9¼ by 11¼ inches (23.5 cm. by 28.8 cm.), 498 pages illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, tables, and charts, a CD is included containing appendices with additional information on the chapters and the bibliography for the book
This is the most comprehensive and beautiful books that ever has been done covering these very beautiful and highly ecologically endangered family of terrestrial mollusks. It covers the history and the study of these shells, their ecology and habitat, and is also a comprehensive guide to the identification of the variable species and varieties within the species that make these shells so fascinating. The principal author has made a lifelong study of these shells and shares what he has learned with us. The book is enhanced by Adrian's expert photography and the "artistic eye" that has been his blessing.
Those of you that are already familiar with Adrian Guillén and his other books
"Polymita: The Most Beautiful Land Snail of the World"
and the now out of print
"Cuba: The Landshell Paradise"
will order this new book without hesitation. Those of you that have not met Adrian should know that he is a consummate naturalist, a superb photographer, an artist, and a sculptor who puts together all of his talents to give us, in his latest book, the most thorough and amazing study of the beautiful shells in the family Liguus, that has ever been done. He is ably aided by his co-authors, Fred (Pete) Krull and Luis Lajonchere-Ponce de León, who have contributed a great deal of their time and their knowledge to bring this remarkable book to us. But it is to Adian that our thanks must be given for making this book available to us.
This book is a superb identification guide for the Liguus and it covers the numerous species, subspecies, forms and varieties of these mollusks occurring in Cuba, Florida & Hispaniola. It is the first book ever done that illustrates with superb photographs many of these shells with pictures of the living animals as well as their shells. But the book is far greater than simply being an identification guide. In its ten chapters you will have information on the history of the study of these snails, their taxonomy, their and their paleological history and phylogeny, a study of their migration, their biology and ecology, and all other aspects of these shells and our interest in them as collectors and as malacologists. The book is very well written and the descriptive material about these shells is complete while at the same time concise. The first printing of this book was only one hundred copies. I am hopeful that a reprint will soon be necessary, but this is a book that is hugely expensive to print. So, it is uncertain at this time, if a reprint will be don.e We have a limited number of copies that have been autographed by Adrian and Pete and these copies will go to those of you that place the first orders for the books
Adrian and Pete did a presentation on these shells and on this book at the COA (2018) convention in San Diego, California last month. Every copy of the book that they had with them sold instantly after the presentation.
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